chimney update...
Aug. 6th, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sev...it was a starling. It didn't chirp at all yesterday, but five minutes before the critter-catcher came, it started trilling away. The guy pried the cap off the old wood-burning-stove pipe (which I'd tried to do yesterday, but I found it quite impervious), fished out the bird, and let it go. Expensive lesson, but if it happens again, I'll be able to get the damn thing out myself. I can do birds. (and mice.) Rats and squirrels are a different game.
As it turns out, the chimney cap installed by the contractors that remodeled our house a year and a half ago is bunk. They couldn't find one of the right size, so they bought the next size up, which overhangs the chimney by quite a bit, so animals can just climb up under it...thoroughly missing the point of a cap in the first place. Sheesh! Unless we can get them to come back and fix it, that will be *another* expensive endeavor. Damn.
As it turns out, the chimney cap installed by the contractors that remodeled our house a year and a half ago is bunk. They couldn't find one of the right size, so they bought the next size up, which overhangs the chimney by quite a bit, so animals can just climb up under it...thoroughly missing the point of a cap in the first place. Sheesh! Unless we can get them to come back and fix it, that will be *another* expensive endeavor. Damn.
